Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
For some reason, room was not found on these two discs for the Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, otherwise this would...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 12/2003
This new account of the G minor Symphony has a lot going for it. Paavo Jarvi is eminently straightforward and...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1999
Chandos certainly know how to maximize on the advantages of CD—my sympathy lies with the poor disc mastering people faced...
Reviewed in issue 11/1985
With his awesome silences and towering climaxes, Bruckner is a composer whose music markedly benefits from the silent surfaces and...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1983
I hardly imagined that Testament would be able to trump its Wagnerian ace as regards the Keilberth Ring (3/06, 9/06,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2007
High among the most treasurable events in Britten’s time at the Aldeburgh Festival were invariably those in which he himself...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1999
Of the two Bach oratorios on this generously filled disc, it is the Easter Oratorio which is the least performed...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1994
Faure's Au cimetiere, a calm meditation upon a village funeral, seems at first sight out of place in an anthology...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1985
This is the fourth in the planned eight-volume set of Purcell's complete odes and welcome songs performed by The King's...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/1992
John Johnson was employed as a lutenist at the court of Queen Elizabeth 1 and the great majority of his...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1993
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
'This is a treasure trove of information, thoroughly recommended'
The tabletop ‘music centre’ may be just a distant memory, but where do you start when you want to...
Tim Parry explores the legacy of Jorge Bolet’s Decca recordings
Rob Cowan on collections devoted to two pianists, a cellist and a composer
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